Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 01:08:51 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, mike@smith.net.au, sthaug@nethelp.no, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM messed: vm_page_free panic problem Message-ID: <199802160608.BAA00633@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199802160559.VAA04833@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Feb 15, 98 09:59:22 pm"
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Mike Smith said: > > > > I would be surprised if these disks would boot on a 5M system without > > > > PSE capability. I think we are talking 6M now. > > > > > > The entire BOOTMFS image is a bit under 3MB. 5MB is probably still > > > workable, but the installation will be slower than if you have 8MB+ > > > (buffer cache, less MFS paging, etc.) > > > > Why does FreeBSD require 5M to boot, then? If the kernel loads at 1M, > > and takes 3M or less, then the 5M requirement should go away, right? > > I mean, 1 + 3 = 4... > > It doesn't. You can boot FreeBSD on a machine with 2M. > > You need 5M to avoid having the *installation* disk puke when it runs > out of memory. > For JKH, and others building boot floppies -- use DISABLE_PSE to make the problem go away (I think.) It should be the default in the config file until I can fix it. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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